Anneka Tran’s 3d work is absolutely amazing. Her blog isn’t bad, either. It’s nice to see such a fantastic illustrator living this side of the pond.

PCWorld has an interesting article on the EU volume restrictions for personal music players.

• 80 decibels is equivalent to the level of noise you’d hear on a busy city street;
• 90 decibels is lawnmower-like loudness;
• 110 is as ear-shattering as a loud rock concert;
• 120 to 130 matches the level of an airliner taking off — or, in less technical terms, “GET USED TO PEOPLE ALWAYS HAVING TO SHOUT AT YOU!”

This hopefully means good things for web-safe fonts.

Ascender Corporation, Carter & Cone and The Font Bureau, Inc. announced today that they are working on a project in conjunction with Microsoft to extend the Georgia and Verdana typeface families. This project began more than a year ago, and the first of the new typefaces are expected during the first quarter of 2010.

b3ta has a great movie poster mashup contest running.

Take any film you wish, and photoshop the scenery, characters or titles into the style of a famous movie poster for a different film: The Dambusters in the style of Ghostbusters, Finding Nemo in the style of Jaws, etc.

‘Schizophrenia’ is a wonderful piece of literature and illustration by tallguywrites.

An eleven page chapter from my upcoming book Psychiatric Tales, which will be out from Blank Slate in early 2010. Feel free to point out any errors or make any other comments.

Luke Wroblewksi describes Facebook’s interesting approach to implementation and design. A unique take, but I personally can’t see myself being able to work like this.